LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and tempera on panel

Measurements:

26.89 in. (68.30 cm.) (height) by 20.98 in. (53.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, inscribed and dated upper right: IMAGO ALBERTI MARCHIONIS BRADENB/ CV XVIII ANV AGERET GRAPHICE/ DEPICTA/ QUOD OPUS IA vs DE BARBARIS FACIEB/ M. DVIII and signed with the artist's device of a caduceus

Exhibited:

Munich, Julius Böhler,. Austsellung Altvenezianischer Malerei , 1931, no. 2;. Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Meisterwerke aus baden-württembergischem Privatbesitz, 1958-59, no. 11; . Bregenz, Künstlerhaus, Meisterwerke der Malerei aus privatsammlungen im Bodenseegebiet, 1965, no. 3; . Innsbruck, Landhaus, Maximilian I, 1 June - 5 October 1969, no. 533; . Basel, Kunstmuseum, Lukas Cranach. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik , 15 June - 8 September 1974, no. 4; . Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Renaissance Venice and the North , 5 September 1999 - 9 January 2000, no. 84; . Hamburg, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Lucas Cranach. Glaube, Mythologie und Modernem , 6 April - 13 July 2003, no. 2; . Halle, Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Der Kardinal. Albrecht von Brandenburg, Renaissancefürst und Mäzen, 9 September - 26 November 2006, no. 88

Literature:

W. Hosäus,. Ein handbuch für die besucher des Wörlitzer Gartens und die Wörlitzer Kunstsammlungen, Dessau 1883, p. 47, as hanging in 'Die geistliche Kabinett'; . W. Schmidt, 'Ein Porträt des Kurfursten Albrecht von Mainz', in Beilage zur Allgemeinen Zeitung, 94, April 1900, p. 5; . W.A. Luz, 'Der Kopf des Kardinals Albrecht von Brandenburg bei Dürer, Cranach und Grünewald', in Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft, 45, 1925, p. 43; . G. Fiocco, 'Ausstellung Venezianischer Kunst in München', in Zeitschrift für bildenden Kunst, Leipzig 1931-32, pp. 155-60; . A. de Hevesy, 'An unknown portrait by Jacopo de' Barbari', in The Burlington Magazine , 60, 1932, pp. 208-09, reproduced; . R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting , 18 vols, vol. XVIII, The Hague 1936, p. 474, reproduced fig. 260; . L. Baldass, 'Die Bildnisse des Jacopo dei Barbari', in Pantheon, 22, 1938, pp. 319 and 321; . J. Wilde, 'An unknown portrait by Jacopo de Barbari', in The Burlington Magazine , 72, 1938, p. 43; . W. Zülch, Der historische Grunewald, Mathis Gothardt-Neidhardt, Munich 1938, pp. 21-22 and 411, n. 26; . E. Lavagnino, Gli artisti Italiani in Germania, vol. III, Rome 1943, reproduced fig. VII; . L. Servolini, Jacopo de' Barbari, Padua 1944, pp. 146-47, reproduced plate XL; . B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Venetian School, vol. I, London 1957, p. 11, reproduced plate 318 (as homeless); . R. Pallucchini, 'Veneti a Stoccarda', in Arte Veneta, 12, 1958, p. 260; . F. Heinemann, 'Das Bildnis des Johannes Corvinus in der Alten Pinakothek und die Jugendwicklung des Jacopo de' Barbari', in Arte Veneta, 15, 1961, pp. 47-48; . G. Mazzariol and T. Pignatti, La pianta prospettica di Venezia del 1500 disegnata da Jacopo de Barbari, Venice, 1962, p. 7; . T. Pignatti, 'La pianta di Venezia di Jacopo de' Barbari', in Bolletino Museo Civico di Venezia, 9, 1964, pp. 13 and 23; . C. Gilbert, 'Barbari, Jacop de'', in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, 1964, vol. VI, pp. 44-45; . J. Levenson, K. Oberhuber and J.L. Sheehan, Early Italian Engravings from the National Gallery of Art , exh. cat., Washington 1973, p. 341, n. 99, and pp. 143-44, n. 533; . D. Koepllin and T. Falk, Lukas Cranach, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik , exh. cat., Basel and Stuttgart 1974, vol. I, p. 56, no. 4, and vol. II, p. 792, n. 56; . J.A. Levenson, Jacopo de' Barbari and Northern Art of the Early Sixteenth Century , doctoral diss., New York University, New York 1978, pp. 91-93, 113, 206-08, no. 11; . B. Butts, 'Dürerschüler Hans Süss von Julmbach', doctoral diss., Harvard University 1985, p. 198; . A.M. Szylin, 'Barbari, Jacopo de', in Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, vol. VI, 1992, pp. 645-46; . A.M. dal Pozzolo, in Renaissance Venice and the North. Crosscurrents in the time of Dürer, Bellini and Titian , exh. cat., Milan 1999, pp. 370-71, no. 84, reproduced; . G.C.F. Villa, 'Jacopo de Barbari', in La Pittura nel Veneto, Il Cinquecento , vol. III, M. Lucco (ed.), Florence 1991, p. 1298; . S. Hauschke, 'Ein Paragone um Grabdenkmӓler der Vischer-Werkstatt. Kardinal Albrecht Von Brandenburg und Kurfürst Friedrich der Weise von Sachsen', in Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums , 2002, p. 238; . W. Schade, Lucas Cranach. Glaube, Mythologie und Modernem , exh. cat., Hamburg 2003, p. 166, no. 2, reproduced fig. 25; . B. Broos and A. van Suchtlelen, Portraits in the Mauritshuis 1430-1790, Zwolle 2004, p. 36, reproduced fig. 3c; . S. Ferrari, Jacopo de' Barbari: Un protagonista del Rinascimento tra Venezia e Dürer , Milan 2006, pp. 107-08, no. 16; . B. Böckem, Jacopo de' Barbari: Künstlerschaft und Hofkultur um 1500 , Weimar 2016, pp. 19, 23, 68, 75, and 253-55, no. 7, reproduced fig. 3

Provenance:

Probably Leopold III Friedrich, Prince of Anhalt and 1st Duke of Anhalt-Dessau (1740-1817), Gotisches Haus, Wörlitz, near Dessau;. Probably by descent to his grandson Leopold IV Friedrich, Duke of Anhalt (1794-1871), Gotisches Haus, Wörlitz and Schloss Dessau; . Friedrich I, Duke of Anhalt (1871-1904), Gotisches Haus, Wörlitz and Schloss Dessau, inv. no. 1491, when hung in the 'geistliche Kabinett' at the Gotisches Haus; . By descent to Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt (1856-1918), Gotisches Haus, Wörlitz and Schloss Dessau; . By descent to his nephew Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt (1901-1947), Schloss Dessau; . By whose curator offered in August 1927 to Galerie Heinemann, Munich, for RM 35,000, but presumably turned down; Possibly with 'Goldschmidt' (probably Arthur Goldschmidt, acting for J. and S. Goldschmidt), Berlin, probably in 1927 or shortly thereafter; . With Julius Böhler, Munich, by 1931; . Acquired from the above by Ernst Saulmann, Ehingen, for 40,000 RM in 1931; . On commission from the above to Julius Böhler in 1935 (not sold); . Permission granted to Saulmann by the German fiscal authorities for the sale of the work abroad in 1936; . Acquired from the above by Theodor Fischer, Lucerne, 1936 (the proceeds of the sale confiscated from Saulmann by the German fiscal authorities); . Private collection, Switzerland, circa 1960; By descent to the present owner (settlement reached with the Saulmann heirs in 2014